Syed Asghar Ali Zaidi at his tailoring shop killed in Baghdadi
07-5-2002
KARACHI, May 7: A young man was shot dead in Baghdadi on Tuesday night. Police said the victim, Syed Asghar Ali Zaidi, aged 32, was in his tailoring shop on Kara Bhai Karim Jee Road in Naya Abad when an assailant came to his shop and opened fire on him.
He was rushed to Civil Hospital where he died.
The assailant escaped, with his accomplice, who was waiting outside the shop, on a motorcycle. They escaped into the narrow streets of the area without facing any resistance from law-enforcement personnel.
Sources at Civil Hospital said Zaidi received two bullets: one in the chest and the other in the spine. Police said the dead man was a tailor master and he had a small tailoring shop in the area. After the killing, tension gripped the area and shopkeepers pulled their shutters down.
A senior police officer of Lyari Town said, according to the initial investigation, the killing appeared to be sectarian motivated.
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